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Recap / Paradise PDS 03 E 08 Blimp City

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When Karen's mom, Agatha Culpepper, comes down to help her daughter with baby prep, she nags Randall to madness and he escapes to hide out in a city in the sky called Blimp City.

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  • Accidental Truth: Kevin needs Bullet to help him fight off some evil technology at Gina's house but knows that thanks to Black Mirror, Bullet is terrified of technology and would never agree to it. So he tells him he's going to meet an Amish drug dealer, which just so happens to be exactly what was in Bullet's plans for the day.
    Amish Drug Dealer: This fresh-churned meth with bloweth your fucking mind!
  • A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Gina's robot vagina goes rogue and takes over her whole body.
  • Ambiguously Bi: Quohand is shown to be very sexually aroused by Kevin playing with Kevin's vagina but doesn't get a boner like his friends until he fantasises about a bare-chested Kylo Ren.
  • Artificial Limbs: Gina's robot vagina from "Showdown at the O-bese Corral" is played with and explored in a much bigger role.
  • Auto-Incorrect: Fitz gets auto-corrected, despite his "text message" being him painting words on pieces of shit.
  • Awful Wedded Life: Randall seems to hate being married to Karen in this episode, so much so, that he escapes to a man cave in the sky, full of husbands, who are also hiding out from their wives.
  • Bait-and-Switch: Randall goes on a major zig-zagging tangent when he finds out that Fitz bought a blimp instead of a helicopter, like he asked him to. During this tangent, he flip-flops back and forth between sounding pissed off to sounding delighted before he finally lands on being happy with what Fitz did.
    Randall: Fitz, I gave you one job and ... you crushed it! You're awesome ... at disobeying me and I'm so glad you did ... You're fired ... up, I hope, because I sure am because you did something fantastic ... ally dumb ... foundingly great! Now, let me get in that blimp, which I love ... as much as a hot nail up my dickhole ... which I do love! ... I'm done.
  • Breast Expansion: Agatha gets a massive melon job to try and woo Hopson.
    Agatha: I know you're not a fan of fried eggs but what to you think of these huevos gigantos?
  • Call-Back: Fitz having the instinctive urge to buy a purple blimp is because of his previously established mental prison, known as Pussyland.
  • Flashback: It's revealed in a flashback that Agatha and Hopson used to go to school together sometime in the 60's or 70's (although at this time, Hopson was an adult, lurking around the school to creep on high schoolers) and Agatha had a huge crush on him.
  • Floating Continent: Blimp City is a city in the sky, wherein the ground is made entirely out of stationary blimps.
  • Henpecked Husband: Randall feels like this and decides to escape from his marriage by hiding out in Blimp City.
  • Immediate Self-Contradiction: Agatha assumes her grandson Kevin is "special" but Kevin denies this. However, when Agatha gives him a puzzle for preschoolers as a present, he gets super excited and jumps around, screaming, flailing about, and acting like a stereotypical special ed kid.
  • Jerkass: Agatha is called out on being this at the end of the episode, for telling Randall that his upcoming son would be better off if he was dead.
  • Laborious Laziness: Dusty has a bunch of drones flying around and carrying his body everywhere so that he no longer has to move.
  • Living Crashpad: Agatha's massive knockers serve as a life-saving cushion for Randall and Fitz when they plummet from space.
  • Mistaken for Cheating: Randall mistakes Agatha for Karen, when he sees her silhouette in the shower and goes in there to play with her naked body. Just as Randall realizes his mistake, Karen walks in and sees a horrifying sight. However, Karen is pretty quick to deduce what really happened and most of the awkwardness of this scene is derived from Randall low-key fucking a gross old bitch, who he hates.
    [Randall and Agatha slip and fall out of the shower, with Randall landing on top of her]
    Randall: Oh, shit. It's in!
  • Obnoxious In-Laws: This episode marks the first appearance of Agatha Culpepper and immediately upon her introduction, it epitomizes her judgmental and overbearing attitude toward Randall.
  • Only in It for the Money: As a very homoflexible bisexual man, Hopson had no interest in dating Agatha until he found out she was loaded. Suddenly, he was all about motorboating her big boobs and eventually, marrying her.
  • Overly Narrow Superlative: Randall pulls one of these off to convince Fitz to let him fly their blimp into the sun.
    Fitz: We're gunna die if you don't turn around!
    Randall: Don't be naive, Fitz. Nobody's ever died from flying a blimp into the sun.
    Fitz: Damn. You got me on that one.
  • Straw Character: Bill Clinton appears as the leader of Blimp City and serves as your typical political strawman.
    Bill Clinton: I've been up here for over a year. Hillary thinks I'm in Africa doing some work for the Clinton foundation or some bullshit. Boy, I can't stand her.

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